Quotes about Creation

The LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Genesis 2:7

I will praise You, because I have been re- markably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well. Psalm 139:14

At times He seemed just like a friend, Unique but one of us. Then suddenly we saw the One Who formed us from the dust.

God made to spring up. It's a wonder that God would choose to slowly grow what He could have simply created grown. Why on earth would He go to the trouble to plant a garden forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence, full bloom? Why leave His desk and get His pant legs soiled? Because God likes watching things grow.

He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; His lightning to the ends of the earth. Job 37:3

God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desired the existence of humanity for fellowship. They wanted humans to have a will of their own because they wanted to be chosen. Not commanded. They knew that equipping humanity with a will would necessitate a plan for redemption because we would ultimately make some very poor choices. Thus, the plan of salvation was already completely intact before the creation of the world. When the Holy Trinity was ready, each member participated in the creation.

When we become psychologically dependent upon crisis, it actually becomes our life motivator, and if we don't have a present crisis, we'll learn to create one.

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.